The Lasting Impact of Mispronouncing Students’ Names

Creative Output Requires Quality Inputs

By far and away, if you have more ideas than time but more time than attention, the best way to keep the needle moving forward is to have smarter “defaults” for how your spend your time and energy. Keep choosing the right actions and attitudes until they choose you back.

Light Painting Part One – the Photography

Joshua Earle on capturing shareable moments — Crew Backstage

He seemed out of place there surrounded by beach jewelry, scented candles, and baskets of packaged seashells. Dance music over store speakers nearly drowned out his voice. As we followed him through aisles crammed with flip-flops and plastic buckets, I thought sadly how his working in such a place was final evidence that the small town ways had been all but swallowed up by sterile progress.

Small Town Ways

Most spiritual teachings stress the importance of some kind of practice, be it meditation, prayer, yoga, relaxation, or movement. The important thing is to set aside some time each day to reestablish a deeper connection with our true nature.

The Whisky Sour

How to Stay a Creative Genius

The Four Tools of Discipline

Truth or reality is avoided when it is painful. We can revise our maps only when we have the discipline to overcome that pain. To have such discipline, we must be totally dedicated to truth. That is to say that we must always hold truth, as best we can determine it, to be more important, more vital to our self-interest, than our comfort. Conversely, we must always consider our personal discomfort relatively unimportant and, indeed, even welcome it in the service of the search for truth.

Choosing a High End Compact Camera

I think the problem is that the algorithms are biased toward what's important to the people who developed them.

Algorithms rank individuals to determine credit worthiness, desirability for college admissions and employment, and compatibility as dating partners. They encode ideas of what counts as the best schools, neighborhoods, and technologies.

Revealing Algorithmic Rankers

It’s us. We are going crazy. Each one of us, individually, capsized in the flood of negativity, we are ready to burn down the very structures on which the most successful civilizations in human history have been built.

A Strategy Map for Security Leaders: Information Security’s Value to the Organization

Helping the organization to manage not only the unrewarded risks of protecting its assets and minimizing downside, but also the rewarded risks of enabling its assets and maximizing upside, is the fundamental value provided by the business function known as information security

The Information Security Leader, Part 1: Two Distinct Roles, Four Fundamental Questions and Three Persistent Challenges